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24 hrs a day - mar 8
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We must go to AA meetings regularly. We must learn to think differently. We must change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must re-educate our minds. We must try to help other alcoholics. We must cooperate with God by spending at least as much time and energy on the AA program as we did on drin...
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GETTING STARTED
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. --Charles Baudelaire
A big assignment can be scary to face. We may start to think that how we do on the assignment will determine if we're good or bad people. The more we think about it, the harder that task seems. The k...
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Just want to say Welcome...
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Welcome to Elli, Mikey and Hugger...I know some of you have been around for awhile...just not posting. Hope you will continue to share your experience, strength and hope with us. And if I missed anyone I'm sorry, just quickly catching up on the board before going to bed.
Today was a good day, I stayed...
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Hi Amanda
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Where u at girl ?
I'll come right over get that apt done with ya.
Maybe u could kick my butt and i'd do my taxes ?? Ya think ?
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Have had 2 or 3 inquiries about this stuff..
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Types of emotional / physical / verbal abuse common in people with BPD:
DOMINATION / CONTROL: The internal chaos of the person with BPD's emotions often gives them a desperate need to control external events, situations and people. (The internal world is so out of control - so external control g...
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Step 10
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"Continued to take personal inventory and when wrong promply admitted it".
The last week was a week full of personal discovery for me.
I had been registering my own concerns with the manner of communcation "Break-downs", that I was seeing on this Board, and was told that this a Board is&nb...
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Relationship Expectations
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The Truth About Relationship Expectations
Larry James
Blaming others for the pain we feel each time someone fails to live up to our expectations is no different than burning our tongue on coffee that's too hot to swallow, and then calling our cup an idiot! - Guy Finl...
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Denial
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Total surrender is an alien concept for most non-recovering people to accept. That a Higher Power, a Power greater than ourselves, that God could take us through the dark rapids of life safely if we agreed to let go of our own self-will is not an easy principle to adopt. Acting on this principle is, howe...
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I kinda want more drink...
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Well i had my usual 4 Skoll Supers (9%) and that was a while ago.. i want another drink.. .. hmm.. the offlicense is open for another 36 minutes.. .... if i buy another drink tomorrow will be a nightmare..
Iv already taken a ONE A NIGHT NYTOL (sleeping tablet aid)... and im feeling really sleepy.. .. but...
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AA Grapevine, June 1973
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Long, but good reading. This is Dr. Bob's last major talk given in Detroit, Michigan in December 1948, transcribed from tape. Although a good many of you have heard or have read about the inception of A.A., probably there are some who haven't. From that brief story, there are thin...
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SOBERITY IS A GIFT
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Sobriety is a big gift box with a hundred little packages inside to unwrap. - Oscar Morris
Sobriety is its own reward and then some. Sobriety is a condition of openness and receptivity to the treasure of life. It is the ability to view the world through gentler glasses and hear our fellows...
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day by day - mar. 7
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God's love is so encompassing, so all-powerful, that is surpasses our understanding. Doubtless, the reason many have turned away from our fellowship is an inability to accept that love. "What's in it for them? Why do they want to love me?"
Maybe these words were once ours. But as we apply our...
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TODAY'S THOUGHT
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Laughter by definition is healthy. --Doris Lessing
A hearty laugh can warm a cold room and make our spirits soar. But many of us are afraid to laugh, especially when we make mistakes. We think we're supposed to be perfect, and we don't allow ourselves to make mistakes. However, we're not a mold p...
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Music and Lyrics (ol' fun stuff)
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Every Breath You Take ~ Police
Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you
break Every step you take I'll be watching you Every single
day Every word you say Every game you play Every night you say
I'll be watching you O can't you see You belong to me
How my poor heart aches W...
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Making Amends
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Hey-
Anyone want to share on how they went about making amends? My sponsor suggested making sure I do this the "AA way"- So I figured I would ask to get some input-
Thanks,
Joel
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yes, the SWEETNESS of surrender
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Surrender
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. --Step Three of Al Anon
Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered.We become empowered in a new, better, more effective way than we believed possible.Doors op...
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Good Morning, God! HP!
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This is an AA prayer, (but I cut 2 sentences out of it--to fit my Alanon program).
Good Morning, God!   
Thank you for this day! As I consider my plans for this day, Let m...
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Wednesday
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Little Things In Life
Too often we don't realize what we have until it is gone; Too often we wait too late to say "I'm sorry -- I was wrong."
Sometimes it seems we hurt the ones we hold dearest to our hearts; And we allow foolish things to tear our lives apart.
Far too many times we let unimportant th...
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AARRRGGGHHHH !!!
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Can this day get any better!!! Thru all of this other "stuff" I have now managed to break a tooth in HALF that I was supposed to have a root canal on Friday. Guess the good news is now I don't need the root canal!!!  Sure does hurt, though!
Here's what I really need some help with......
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Always There
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ALWAYS THERE Happiness does not depend on whether or not you always get your way. However, when you do choose happiness, events will more often go your way. You do not need to accumulate a lot of things before you can be happy. Yet when you are happy, you'll open yourself up to all kinds of new abundance. H...
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Live and Let Live and Acceptance
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LIVE AND LET LIVE
The fight is over when we have surrendered.
We don't need to announce our judgments and opinions to the world or to the people in our life's. We don't need to debate any issue about anything with anyone. Provided we know our own truth and find it to be a tru...
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Reprieve...
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It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must car...
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everyday folks
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It's truly an everyday thing this sobriety. I'm a white chipper with 2 meetings and my 1st iop today. I'd like to read some good stories and encouraging disclosure here. 1 week sober and feeling better physically. This journey will be long for me but I WILL succeed. Gonna hit the steps hard today. Gimme...
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AA Big Book Trivia ??
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What does it say in the AA Big Book on page 132, 16 lines from the top, 16 lines from the bottom, two words to the left, and two words to the right... smack dab in the middle of the page?
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Sobriety Wiggle
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John's (aka OP_Present) version of da Sobriety Wiggle!
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Inspirational Page...turn it over
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www.wandascountryhomeinspirational.com/butterflyfree/  Type in if link doesn't work.
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What Power Do We Have?
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So we think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness. Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But why shouldn't we laugh? We have recovered, and have been given the power, the power to help others.
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Step 12 -
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"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
What is 'the message'?
How do we 'practice these principles in all our affairs'?
What are the 'principles' we are supposed to be pr...
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What is the Foundation Stone of Recovery?
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"Helping others is the foundation stone of your recovery. A kindly act once in a while isn't enough. You have to act the Good Samaritan every day, if need be."
*AA Big Book, Chapter "Working With Others" pg 97
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giving over the problem and letting it STAY there
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A.A. Thought for the Day
There are two important things we have to do if we want to get sober and stay sober. First, having admitted that we're helpless before alcohol, we have to turn our alcoholic problem over to God and trust Him to take care of it for us. This means asking Him every morning for the s...
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Dear God!!
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here is a prayer from me to group
"Dear God, i ask U to shine your loving light over all of us in recovery AND those who are not and needing to be here and enable us to focus on recovery and compassion and love for all--- i ask U to put to rest the dark forces that try t...
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Tuesday
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. --Anne Frank
We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day. The temptation to blame o...
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What our we all here for????
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Myself,,,Sharing and an up-lifting of spirit,,learning, and last but not least,,,Living sober one day at a time,,,
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i had to change my eyes
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MONDAY , MARCH 06, 2006
You are reading from the book Today's Gift </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=2121>.
This Mouse must give up one of the Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow. --Hyemeyohsts Storm
There is an American Indian tale of a mouse who heard a roaring...
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group conscience time - John?
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okay... I think it is group conscience time. This is getting out of hand.
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Reaching Out
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Reach out
Our life is a journey, we've often been told. With our future ahead, not sure what it will hold. This uncertainty seems to breed skepticism and fear. As we search for answers and want things to be clear. Life is a journey that we must vigorously embrace. Enabling us to deal with the opportuni...
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Monday
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Peace
Anxiety is often our first reaction to conflict, problems, or even our own fears. In those moments, detaching and getting peaceful may seem disloyal or apathetic. We think: If I really care, Ill worry; if this is really important to me, I must stay upset. We convince ourselves that outcome...
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More on Powerlessness
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More on Powerlessness
By Robert Burney M.A.
"We are powerless out of human ego-self to get out of this quagmire. That is the bad news. It is also the good news.
Once you let go enough times, once you becoming willing to go to any length, to do whatever it takes, once you b...
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The fighting
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I do not post much for the smiple fact that I do not know what to post being I might be attacked. I'v read lot's of your guys fights and it's still the same old fights used in AA. Who can out talk recovery more than another person. It happens all the time in AA and it's sad. I think ev...
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Peace during conflict...
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Peace
Anxiety is often our first reaction to conflict, problems, or even our own fears. In those moments, detaching and getting peaceful may seem disloyal or apathetic. We think: If I really care, Ill worry; if this is really important to me, I must stay upset. We convince ourselves that outcomes w...
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Father Leo's Meditation
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HYPOCRISY "Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo." -- Ambrose Bierce As a religious person I could be such a hypocrite. I thought that my "goodness" was dependent upon my judging others to be inferior. I was always putting other people down so that I could appear terrific. But a part of me always knew this w...
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Anger and Rage
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What is Raging?
Rage is a shame based expression of anger.
Rage is by definition abuse. Ragers react to strong emotions with rage. (i.e. feelings of fear, sadness, shame, inadequacy, guilt or loss convert to rage.) Ragers were typically shamed or punished by their caretakers for expr...
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Guess Picked bad time to come back.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I do know a few months back that this was a loving and careing group...
Lets take a breath count to ten and Pray,,,Let gods will be done not mine,,
Pray for thy enemy..Had to throw that one in,,,
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Thoughts on Powerlessness...
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Powerlessness & Empowerment
By Robert Burney M.A.
"The Twelve Step Recovery process is so successful because it provides a formula for integrating different levels. It is by recognizing that we are powerless to control our life experiences out of ego-self that we can access the powe...
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Amends......
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My apologies to any and all I have offended......I have felt, the last few weeks, exactly like I felt in my first 30 days of sobriety. I found out at a f2f this morning that it is a "natural" part of the process of this program/sobriety....I did not want to face the fact that I have resentments against my so...
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Who Is Bigger than the Program?
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The formate of these boards allows cross talk and public discussion. The AA Traditions tell us how the Program works. When all else fails, the Traditions keep us in line to pursue the recovery that is possible. If it were not for AA I do not know where I would be today. I am thankful for the support that oth...
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Rob and Robert....
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I think this is gona get confusing.. Im Robert too.but hav registered as Rob... lol.. Hey Robert.. .. ok so EVERYONE will have to make a point of saying ROB or ROBERT.. lol.../ Where you from Robert btw??
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Thanks to the program
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Thanks to the program, all a' ya'll, and that power greater than myself;
We have been very busy lately and it looks as if it is going to get much more so.
I've been reading the board every night but, have not logged on. Long days and I've been getting to bed much earlier.
I also have been watching and r...
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Hi all
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Just wanted to say hi and that I'm back.
I've been staying sober one day at a time but have missed all my brother and sisters on this site,,,Thank God for the phone numbers I carry on me,,,I've burnt a few ears here as of late,,My scedule had me missing meetings,,,Well I'll yak at you later..
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Waiting
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God delays, but doesn’t forget.
— Spanish Proverb
It’s frustrating to get sick, lose a job, or encounter financial setbacks. We suddenly feel curtailed, with the rhythm of our lives changed in a way we never anticipated. But our Higher Power slows us down for a reason.
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